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Talking to Other Dummies Authors

I’m in San Francisco for the first ever Dummies Authors Conference. There are about 50 Dummies authors here, and the day is packed with discussions about marketing books, the uses of agents, and general Dummies best practices. It’s going to be an interesting day! You can check out the…

Hop Studios Gets an Air Kiss from Movable Type

Movable Type featured Hop Studios in a very nice blog entry yesterday about Rose Levy Beranbaum’s blog: Real Baking with Rose.  We’re mentioned because we designed the site for General Mills, who commissioned it.

Movable Type’s summation of the year-long experience Rose has had with her…

Apologies for a Rocky Migration

Even the best companies can stumble.

Hop Studios relies on Nexcess to provide the hosting for most of our clients.  They have good rates, fair business practices and most of all, the best customer service in the online world.

That customer service has been very important recently, because…

A New Look for Sam Harris

We’ve just relaunched a website for Sam Harris, who is probably best known as the author of the New York Times bestseller, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.  If you went to his website in July 2006, you’d know that (and only that), because that was the core focus…

New West: An Analysis Project

The phone rang recently and on the other end was New West, an online publication that covers Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and so forth.  Their site was built in ExpressionEngine, and they wanted someone who could do development on small projects for them when their main developer…